Graphic designer and artist Stefan Sagmeister[2] is communicating a serious life lesson through an unlikely medium: bananas! Set in patterns of green, yellow and brown, Sagmeister created his giant Banana Wall as part of an art installation for the ‘Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far’ exhibition. So what did 10,000 bananas affixed to a wall with some glue have to say? Find out after the jump…

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“Self-confidence produces fine results.”

While by now this installation is a deep black compost – as the installation was originally exhibited just a few weeks in 2008[4] – even old life lessons provide something to be gleaned from. And though we can think of many[4], many[5] other fun things to do with bananas[6], none of them seem to be quite as profound.